Staff Backend Engineer, Golang
OktaSecure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
The PAM Team
Ever wonder how large organizations make sure the right people can access their most critical systems? That's the problem the Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) team solves.
Our solution controls who can reach sensitive servers, databases and cloud resources and grants access only when it's needed. It is the security layer between people (and non-human-identities) and the systems they need to do their jobs.
The Staff Backend Engineer Opportunity
We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer who wants to work on hard problems: distributed systems and building software where getting it right really matters. You'll ship code that protects real infrastructure for real organizations. You’ll build foundations that multiple feature teams depend on. When you make something faster, more reliable, or easier to use, it multiplies across the entire product.
This is a role for someone who likes thinking about how systems fit together. You'll need strong opinions about what makes a good abstraction, and the flexibility to evolve those abstractions as the product grows.
What you’ll be doing
- Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM.
- Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform.
- Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns.
- Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure.
- Work on backend systems written in Go
- Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams
What you’ll bring to the role
- 8+ years of experience as a SWE
- Are an experienced software engineer with a background in Golang (other languages are also acceptable)
- Experienced working with relational databases like Po
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